"Memory Games - Keeping Your
Mind Sharp"

By Kearney Adams


Here are 16 memory games you can play which will improve your memory. Each of the links below, when clicked, opens a new window.

When you are finished playing a game, close that window and try another link from this page.

Have fun!


'Concentration’ type games

Below you’ll find links to online games that are similar to the former TV game show 'Concentration.’ In these games, you are challenged to remember matched pairs from an on-screen grid.

1) Test Your Memory, Improve Your Concentration

- This site utilizes animated graphics that are very pleasing to the eye.

Concentration Board

2) 21st Concentration

- Unlike many matching games, this one has no time limit. However, it does display the elapsed time so you can gauge your performance during each game.

21st Concentration

3) Concentration Game

- At first glance, this site appears to be geared toward children. But it is very customizable and allows you to set the screen size and the rate that the cards flip.

Concentration Board

4) Papunet

- This site contains several matching games that let you choose the number of cards for each game. It’s fun and challenging.

Concentration Board


Here are some additional games that can help improve your memory.

5) Common Cents
- This game displays different mock-ups of the common penny. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to determine which one is the correct one. This game is tougher than it sounds.


6) How is Your Memory for Faces?

- You say you never forget a face? We shall see…

Faces Screen


7) Brainball

- In this game, you display, one at a time, several small windows, each one containing several letters. You’re then shown a target letter. The object of the game is to remember which of the four windows contain the target letter.

Brainball Screen


8) Simon

- This game is the classic game released by Milton Bradley that was such a big hit during the 1980s.

Simon


9) Blackjack

- We’re not promoting gambling here, but learning how to count cards can also help improve memory.

Blackjack

Here’s a wiki that explains how to do it:
Card Counting


10) Short Term Memory Test

- This game tests your short-term memory by asking you to remember a series of letters on different successive screens. This test is really tough.

I gave up after three screens of letters.

Short Term Memory


11) Short Term Memory Test - Pictures

- This game also tests your short-term memory.

But this game displays 21 pictures for about thirty seconds. Then the screen goes blank and you try to write down as many of the items as you can remember.

Here are the pictures
Short Term Memory Pictures


12) The next of our memory games are three mazes that can test your memory skills. Time yourself, then try it a second time and see if you can beat your original time.


13) Test Your Memory

- This game displays letters, starting with one and adding another letter to the total after each correct answer. Your job is to remember the sequence of letters.

I was pretty good at this game, as I was able to remember eighteen letters before quitting. See if you can beat that score!

Memory Test Screen


14) Memory Game - Test Your Memory

- This game is the same as the previous one, only it uses numbers.


15) Newest FunTrivia.com Quizzes!

- Test your memory by playing trivia games. This page has 50 trivia quizzes, with an option to select even more quizzes from twenty different categories.

Trivia


16) ReMemory

- This is a number game where you try to match pairs of numbers. When an match is made, the number pair disappears. When your time runs out, you are shown the same grid again and you try to beat your previous time.

What makes this game difficult is there is only one match on the board for each number pair.

Below is a screen shot of the board...

ReMemory




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